Corporate Communications: Convention

The field of corporate communications describes the practices organizations use to communicate as coherent corporate "bodies". Drawing on the metaphor of the body and on a variety of theories and disciplines, Corporate Communications: Convention, Complexity and Critique challenges the idealized notion that organizations can and should communicate as unified wholes.

The authors pose important questions such as:

• Where does the central idea of corporate communications come from?
• What are the underlying assumptions of most corporate communications practices?
• What are the organizational and ethical challenges of attempting truly ′corporate′ communication?

Clearly written with international vignettes and executive briefings, this book shows that in a complex world the management of communication needs to embrace multiple opinions and voices.